RTI 2 is an Ivorian television channel. The channel targets a younger audience.
History RTI 2 started broadcasting in November 1983. Unlike the existing RTI channel, its coverage area was limited to Abidjan and adjacent areas.Lancement RTI 2 à Bouaké : le discours de Madame le Ministre de la Communication Porte-Parole Adjoint du Gouvernement As Canal 2, the channel's transmitter covered a radius of 50km, with limited programming on Tuesdays and Fridays from 8:30pm.
After broadcasting as an experimental service for several years, RTI reformatted the channel as TV2 on 1 November 1991, using the same transmitter as before. The channel broadcast on VHF channel 10, expanding the reach to 150km and was defined by RTI as a "proximity channel for Abidjan". The channel's audience increased after the introduction of a new schedule in March 1997 (redeveloped in 1999). The impulse for the creation of a regular second channel was given to Amadou Thiam, Félix Houphouët-Boigny's former ambassador of the Ivory Coast to Morocco.
In the early 2000s, TV2 was an affiliate of the French service of TVAfrica, the continental television network that existed between 1998 and 2003. La Première was a sports affiliate.
As of 2008, one of its most-popular programs was Le Direct, a weekly animated satire of local and international events. It was a segment inserted inside Il faut le dire..., an interview program which was presented by Claude-Frank About,Toutes les télés du monde, Ivory Coast, ARTE France and Point du Jour, 2008 a writer who was TV2's director from 2006 to 2011.Claude Frank About It was introduced as part of a new schedule in March 2008.Les habits neufs de Tv2
In April-May 2009, TV2's transmitter had its power cut, with its transmitter having less than 4 kW of power.https://news.abidjan.net/articles/330553/rti-tv2-les-raisons-dune-mauvaise-transmission
The channel was rebranded RTI 2 in 2011; in Easter 2014 it started broadcasting its over-the-air signal to Bouaké in the central area of the country, up until then the signal was limited to Abidjan. In May 2016, Didier Bléou was appointed its new director.Télévision ivoirienne: Didier Bléou, nouveau directeur de TV2 He was followed in 2025 by Mariam Coulibaly.
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